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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 160-169


nanWafted to Thebes divine, What dost thou bring me? My soul is racked and shivers with fear. (Healer of Delos, hear!) Hast thou some pain unknown before, Or with the circling years renewest a penance of yore? Offspring of golden Hope, thou voice immortal, O tell me. First on Athene I call; O Zeus-born goddess, defend! Goddess and sister, befriend, Artemis, Lady of Thebes, high-throned in the midst of our mart! Lord of the death-winged dart! Your threefold aid I crave From death and ruin our city to save. If in the days of old when we nigh had perished, ye drave From our land the fiery plague, be near us now and defend us! Ah me, what countless woes are mine! All our host is in decline; Weaponless my spirit lies. Earth her gracious fruits denies; Women wail in barren throes; Life on life downstriken goes


nanand on your sister, Artemis, guardian of our earth, who sits on her glorious throne above the circle of our market-place, and on far-shooting Apollo: oh shine forth for me, my three-fold help against death!


nanand on your sister, Artemis, guardian of our earth, who sits on her glorious throne above the circle of our market-place, and on far-shooting Apollo: oh shine forth for me, my three-fold help against death!


nanand on your sister, Artemis, guardian of our earth, who sits on her glorious throne above the circle of our market-place, and on far-shooting Apollo: oh shine forth for me, my three-fold help against death!


nanand on your sister, Artemis, guardian of our earth, who sits on her glorious throne above the circle of our market-place, and on far-shooting Apollo: oh shine forth for me, my three-fold help against death!


nanand on your sister, Artemis, guardian of our earth, who sits on her glorious throne above the circle of our market-place, and on far-shooting Apollo: oh shine forth for me, my three-fold help against death!


nanIf ever before you drove a fiery pest from our borders to stop ruin rushing upon our city, come now also! Choru


nanIf ever before you drove a fiery pest from our borders to stop ruin rushing upon our city, come now also! Choru


nanIf ever before you drove a fiery pest from our borders to stop ruin rushing upon our city, come now also! Choru


nanIf ever before you drove a fiery pest from our borders to stop ruin rushing upon our city, come now also! Choru


nanAlas, countless are the sorrows I bear.


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1. Sophocles, Ajax, 173-178, 172 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

2. Sophocles, Antigone, 1116-1152, 174, 213-214, 449, 487, 59, 658-659, 847, 955-965, 988, 1115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Sophocles, Electra, 1240-1242, 1376-1383, 276, 566, 569-570, 626, 637, 644-645, 657-659, 1239 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 785, 407 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 100-107, 11, 110-111, 114-115, 1193-1195, 12, 1207-1210, 1213, 1223-1296, 13, 139, 14, 140-147, 1473, 148-149, 15, 150-159, 16, 161-169, 17, 170-179, 18, 180-189, 19, 190-199, 2, 20, 200-209, 21, 210-215, 22-28, 285-286, 288-289, 29, 3, 30, 303-304, 31-37, 378-379, 38, 380-389, 39, 390-399, 4, 40, 400-403, 41-42, 435-437, 444, 46, 463-469, 47, 470-479, 48, 480-499, 5, 500-509, 51, 510-519, 52, 520-530, 55-64, 66-69, 7, 70-72, 8, 85, 863-869, 87, 870-879, 88, 880-909, 91, 910-919, 92, 920-923, 928, 95-99, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 470-489, 494-496, 930-932, 1182 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 208-215, 207 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

207. Let the brides of tomorrow raise a joyous cry for the house with shouts of triumph at the hearth. Among them let the yell of the men go up in unison for Apollo of the bright quiver, our defender! And at the same time
8. Xenophon, Memoirs, 4.4.19 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4.4.19. Do you know what is meant by unwritten laws, Hippias? Yes, those that are uniformly observed in every country. Could you say that men made them? Nay, how could that be, seeing that they cannot all meet together and do not speak the same language? Then by whom have these laws been made, do you suppose? I think that the gods made these laws for men. For among all men the first law is to fear the gods.
9. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.13 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

10. Plutarch, Aristides, 20.5-20.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

11. Plutarch, Moralia, 349 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

12. Plutarch, Themistocles, 8.2-8.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

13. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.14.5, 1.36.1, 9.17.1-9.17.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.14.5. Still farther of is a temple to Glory, this too being a thank-offering for the victory over the Persians, who had landed at Marathon. This is the victory of which I am of opinion the Athenians were proudest; while Aeschylus, who had won such renown for his poetry and for his share in the naval battles before Artemisium and at Salamis, recorded at the prospect of death nothing else, and merely wrote his name, his father's name, and the name of his city, and added that he had witnesses to his valor in the grove at Marathon and in the Persians who landed there. 1.36.1. But I will return to my subject. In Salamis is a sanctuary of Artemis, and also a trophy erected in honor of the victory which Themistocles the son of Neocles won for the Greeks. 480 B.C. There is also a sanctuary of Cychreus. When the Athenians were fighting the Persians at sea, a serpent is said to have appeared in the fleet, and the god in an oracle told the Athenians that it was Cychreus the hero. 9.17.1. Near is the temple of Artemis of Fair Fame. The image was made by Scopas. They say that within the sanctuary were buried Androcleia and Aleis, daughters of Antipoenus. For when Heracles and the Thebans were about to engage in battle with the Orchomenians, an oracle was delivered to them that success in the war would be theirs if their citizen of the most noble descent would consent to die by his own hand. Now Antipoenus, who had the most famous ancestors, was loath to die for the people, but his daughters were quite ready to do so. So they took their own lives and are honored therefor. 9.17.2. Before the temple of Artemis of Fair Fame is a lion made of stone, said to have been dedicated by Heracles after he had conquered in the battle the Orchomenians and their king, Erginus son of Clymenus. Near it is Apollo surnamed Rescuer, and Hermes called of the Market-place, another of the votive offerings of Pindar. The pyre of the children of Amphion is about half a stade from the graves. The ashes from the pyre are still there.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
actors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
ajax Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 441
antigone (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507
apaturia Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
apollo Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98, 441
aristoboule Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
artemis, of ephesus Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
artemis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 441; Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
asia, greeks (ionians) of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
athena Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98, 441
athens and athenians, and religious authority Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
athens and athenians, attitudes of, toward asiatics Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
athens and athenians, cults and cult places of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
athens and athenians, in persian war era Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
audience, theatre Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
characters, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
council, royal Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
creon, and law Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
creon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
darius i Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
delphi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
eleusinion, at athens Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
ephesus and ephesians Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
eucleia Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
eunuchs Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
eurydice Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 441
general parodos, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
gods, named and unnamed Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 142
heralds, persian Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
hero-cult Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
herodotus, religious perspective of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
hymn, sophocles use of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
ionian revolt Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
kybebe Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
laius Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
law, of creon Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
megabyzus Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
metragyrtes Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
mother of the gods, among asiatic greeks Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
mother of the gods, and artemis Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
mother of the gods, and athens Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
mother of the gods, and warfare Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
names, gods named and unnamed Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 142
neoptolemus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
odysseus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507
paian/paean Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
persia and persians, and eunuchs Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
persia and persians, war with greeks Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
philoctetes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
plataea, battle of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
prologue, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
salamis, battle of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
samos and samians Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
sardis, under persians Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
setting, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
space, and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507
thebes, and oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
themistocles Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
tiresias/teiresias Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
treason, and burial Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
troezen Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
trümpy, catherine Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
tyranny, theology of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 266
tyrant, vs. king Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
zeus' Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98